The album opens with a spoken track with background music. A chaotic kind of jazzy atmosphere is put down in “… for no good reason at all”. The three mixed vocal tracks combined with a darker background sound create a relaxed atmosphere of hope. A very beautiful singing voice of Rachel Wier can be heard in this song which blends effortlessly into the melody dragging you along through the story that is told. The 4
th track seems to change the atmosphere slightly shifting to a bit more experimental sounds, however the manner of singing is maintained fitting well with the previous tracks. Entering the darkest hour at the middle of the album with the song “Hecubii”. This song with male vocals is much darker than the previous tracks and although the atmosphere resembles the previous tracks, it is a very welcome refreshing sound on the CD. After this follows the title track “City of night” in which most of the later mentioned vocalists make their appearance. A well chosen variable song as title track, even containing some raps which seems a “must” nowadays, however this in my opinion makes the track very different from the rest of the album by which the title track unfortunately does not represent the sound of the album. The tracks after the title song maintain the darker influences first heard on “Hecubi” creating a more variable second part of the album.
This dark jazzy pop album was created by the fog people with the help of no less than twelve vocalists and, in comparison, only five instumentalists. Nonetheless this first album of the fog people is a brilliant release and promises much for future releases. Everything heard on this album let’s you hear these musicians now exactly what they are doing and what they want to portray on this release.
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